Proceedings of the ... Annual Convocation, Issue 40Vols. for 1867- include a "necrology". |
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Page 184 - we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 235 - Hail, memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine, From age to age, unnumbered treasures shine! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And place and time are subject to thy sway. Memory
Page 175 - and depths are measured. When the storm has passed and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight bathes its peaceful surface, then the astronomer and surveyor take the level from which they measure all terrestrial
Page 175 - and depths. . . Not here in this brilliant circle where 15,000 men and women are gathered, is the destiny of the republic to be decreed for the next four years. Not here, where I see the enthusiastic faces of 756 delegates, waiting to cast their lots into the urn and determine the choice of the republic; but by four millions of Republican firesides, where the thoughtful
Page 183 - is this: The schools which are maintained by governmental authority are established in the interest of the whole people and because of the controlling conviction that an instructed and enlightened population is essential to the perpetuity of democratic institutions and to their effective operation. The schools are therefore a proper charge
Page 179 - the government. The third type is without any governmental relationship whatever. The three types are these: 1 Those institutions which the government establishes and maintains, such as the public schools, the public libraries and the state universities; 2 Those institutions which the government authorizes, such as school, college and university corporations, private
Page 186 - 1 American education is far wider than the system, of taxsupported schools and universities, numerous and excellent as those schools and universities are. All schools, colleges and universities, tax-supported or not, are public in the important sense that they all reflect and represent some part or phase of our national life and character. 2 There is no restriction